Will the real Jesus please stand up?: bridging the divide between the Jesus Seminar and its opponents through a Burkeian approach

Identifier

etd-0616103-114424

Author

Carol Melissa Hopson-Sparks, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeFollow

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Speech Communication

Document Type

Dissertation

Abstract

This study employs a Burkeian cluster-agon analysis approach to analyze the rhetoric of four members of the Jesus Seminar; namely, Robert Funk, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, and John Shelby Spong as well as that of two of the Jesus Seminar’s critics; Luke Timothy Johnson and N. Thomas Wright. Specifically, this study sought to discern the orientations or perspectives held by each of the examined rhetors in an effort to locate common ground or similar foundations within two seemingly disparate points of view. In doing so, this study creates a third perspective, or corrective, based on the orthopraxis approach of liberation theology that may be appropriated to dissolve other seemingly intractable rhetorical conflicts that threaten to shut down dialogue in conflicts.

Date

2003

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Recommended Citation

Hopson-Sparks, Carol Melissa, "Will the real Jesus please stand up?: bridging the divide between the Jesus Seminar and its opponents through a Burkeian approach" (2003). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2044.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2044

Committee Chair

Andrew King

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.2044